Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim

German paleontologist and politician (1764/65 - 1832).

Ernst Friedrich, Freiherr von Schlotheim (2 April 1764 – 28 March 1832), German palaeontologist and politician, was born in Allmenshausen, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. He was Privy Councillor and President of the Chamber at the court of Gotha. Becoming interested in geology he gathered a very extensive collection of fossils. In 1804 he published descriptions and illustrations of remarkable remains of (Carboniferous) plants, Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Vorwelt. His more important work was entitled Die Petrefactenkunde (1820). In this he incorporated the plates used in his previous memoir and supple